HMS Encounter was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
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 HMS Encounter |
| History |
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 United Kingdom |
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| Name | HMS Encounter |
| Ordered | 1871 |
| Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost | Approximately £77,000 |
| Laid down | 19 June 1871 |
| Launched | 1 January 1873 |
| Completed | July 1873 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, October 1888 |
| General characteristics (as built) |
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| Class & type | Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette |
| Displacement | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
| Tons burthen | 1,405 bm |
| Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | 2,031 ihp (1,515 kW) |
| Propulsion | |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 225 |
| Armament | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
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